Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl. 1816
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name Rose Pogonia or Adder's Mouth
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
This medium sized, cold to cool growing terrestrial orchid is found from Eastern Canada south to Florida and west to Minnesota and Missouri in open wet meadows, sphagnum bogs and poorly drained roadside ditches with fibrous, pubescent, fleshy, slender roots, globose tubers carrying a single, ovate to elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute leaf that blooms in the spring in the south to summer in the north, on a 3/4" to 4 3/4" [2 to 11 cm] long, terminal inflorescence that is subtended by a leaflike bract and has solitary fragrant flowers and has the common name Rose Pogonia or Adder's Mouth.
Synonyms *Arethusa ophioglossoides L. 1753; Arethusa parviflora Michx. 1803; Pogonia ophoglossioides [L.] Ker Gawler var brachypogon Fernald 1922; Pogonia pendula Lindl. 1825
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Pogonia ophioglossoides (L.) Ker Gawl. 'Trident's Sugar Baby' CHM-CCM/AOS. 1816
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Wilford Neptune
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Pogonia ophioglossoides forma albescens (L.) Ker Gawl. 'Mem Jason' CHM/AOS 1816
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